publications
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14. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Garr-Schultz, A. (in press). Strength-based solidarity: Shared strengths as a novel pathway toward holistic and sustained intraminority solidarity. Personality and Social Psychology Review.
13. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). Seeing beyond whose prejudice? Effects of perpetrator race on people of color’s willingness to engage in solidarity efforts with perpetrators of racism. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672251358519. PDF | Data & Materials
12. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. (in press). White power on trial: Perceptions of anti-racism organizations focusing on power versus discrimination. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251357864. PDF | Data & Materials
11. Chang, R., Pham, M. D., & Wong-Padoongpatt, G. (in press). Empowered resistance explains the relationship between historical knowledge and support for Palestine among college students. Critical Education.
10. Oswald, F., Pham, M.D., Harr, R.J, Garr-Schultz, A., & Chaney, K. E. (2025). “They are fat and want special treatment for being fat”: Backlash to and lay theories of fat activism. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 25, e7006. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.70006. PDF | Data & Materials
9. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Lin, M (in press). “Our wars are the same”: (Horizontal) collectivism is associated with lay theory of generalized prejudice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241273274. PDF || Data & Materials
8. Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E (2024). Passing down the mic signals trustworthy intersectional allyship and promotes organizational identity-safety. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 16(6), 634-645. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241287974. PDF || Data & Materials
7. Oswald, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E (2024). Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist-identifying and nationally representative samples. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/asap.12430. PDF || Data & Materials
6. Oswald, F., & Pham, M. D. (2024). Defying carceral logics in technology-facilitated sexualized violence: The speed of technological, legal, and intersectional progress. Contemporary Justice Review, 27(4), 298-320. https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2024.2444912.
5. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Sanchez, D. T. (2023). “I am (oppressed), therefore I see”: Multiple stigmatized identities predict belief in generalized prejudice and intraminority coalition. Self and Identity, 22(6), 1000–1026. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2023.2216941. PDF || Data & Materials
4. Pham, M. D., Chaney, K. E., & Ramírez-Esparza, N. (2024). What are we fighting for? Lay theories about the goals and motivations of anti-racism activism. Race and Social Problems, 16(1), 65–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12552-023-09393-8 PDF || Data & Materials
3. Chaney, K. E., Pham, M. D., & Cipollina, R (2024). Black Americans suppress emotions when prejudice is believed to stem from shared ignorance. Frontiers in Psychology, Social and Personality Psychology, 15, 1336552. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1336552. PDF || Data & Materials
2. Monte V., Pham, M. D., & Tsai, W (2025). Microaggressions and general health among Asian and Black Americans: The moderating role of cognitive reappraisal. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 31(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000610. PDF
1. Pham, M. D., & Borton, J. L. S. (2024). “Are you a homophobic racist?”: Applying lay theory of generalized prejudice to the discrimination-distress link. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 30(2), 273–283. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000576 PDF || Data & Materials
manuscripts
under review
Pham, M. D, Pereira-Jorge, I. A., & Chaney, K. E. The complicit, the invisible, and the forgotten: Critically integrating intersectionality into the psychology of intraminority solidarity. Invited manuscript, Social and Personality Psychology Compass.
Pham, M. D., & Garr-Schultz, A. “They are the shoulders I stand on”: Self as part of ancestry and its implications for activism and intraminority solidarity.
Blanchette, F., Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. Between a prosecutor and a convicted felon? Political allegiance, abolition, and felon’s rights in the context of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Invited for revision and resubmission, Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy.
Pham, M. D., Acevedo, A.* & Sarmal, A.* Integrating historical-materialism to critically examine solidarity motivations in the pro-Palestine movement “I’m Not Palestinian.”
Pham, M. D., & Blanchette, F. Guilty as charged: Americans’ underestimation of police violence and its abolitionist implications.
Pham, M. D., & Sarmal, A. Neutrality kills: Implications and ideological profiles of ambivalence and indifference toward the Palestine-Israel “conflict” in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. Preprint.
Blanchette, F., & Pham, M. D. Imagining new worlds: Relationships between creativity and abolitionist ideology.
Pham, M. D., & Garr-Schultz, A. “I am the dream and the hope of the slave”: Effects of ancestral self-concept on people of color’s gratitude, hope, and life meaning.
Pham, M. D., & Chaney, K. E. Put your money where your mouth is: Effects of racial climate and institutional support on Black Americans’ perceptions of anti-racism task forces.